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Magical Thinking is Not Conservation

By Meghan Bartels / On March 10th, 2015
Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth. When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes.
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The Memory of a Place

By John Rieger / On November 19th, 2014
Ecological restoration is inspirational in the sense that you connect with the earth in a new or different way. I find that I reflect on the history—or what I believe to be the history—of the place I am working. My mind wanders to how this place has gone through changes. Did a stream flow through here, were populations of deer, elk, or bison ever present? Did Native Americans alter the site, use it for supplies, harvest food?
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Conference Fever Isn't Enough

By John Rieger / On October 7th, 2014
Editor's note: Our Executive Editor Barbara Dean is currently attending the Society for Ecological Restoration's Northwest/Great Basin Joint Regional Conference. We hope she and the other attendees catch a nice case of conference fever—and pick up some helpful tips for successful restoration!
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Island Press Staff Picks - An Indomitable Beast

By Meghan Bartels / On September 30th, 2014
Local Maya schoolchildren being brought to the Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve in Belize to be taught about jaguars and other wildlife. (Photo by Becci Foster, Panthera.)

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